I can push my cultivation progress to the end

Immediately, before Li Hai could reply, the Knife Spirit suddenly smiled coldly:

"Fortunately, fortunately, the master was not careless this time and didn't just send me alone."

As soon as he finished speaking, the ground beneath them suddenly shook violently.

Boom~ Boom~ Boom~

Accompanied by huge noises and shaking, the ground beneath Li Hai's feet instantly cracked, forming hideous and thick, deep and secluded ravines.

But Li Hai reacted quickly. Seeing that the situation was not good, he first used his whip as a knife, severing the Knife Spirit's neck, which was already more than half-destroyed, with a single 'slash', and a fragment of a strongman exploded out.

Then, he flashed away and suddenly retreated, leaping to the top of a building ruin a hundred zhang away.

Once there, he lowered his head to observe the continuously shaking ground.

Whoosh—

Instantly, under the gaze of thousands of black eyeballs, Li Hai suddenly felt that his vital essence and life force were inexplicably weakening, and the rate of decay was extremely rapid, as if thousands of mouths had burrowed into his body and were devouring him.

However, Li Hai was not anxious, and he instantly understood the reason for his own abnormal state—it was these vines that emerged from the ground, covered with a large number of eyeballs.

Character Name: Unknown

Level Rank: Sprite → Green Rank, Bloodline Divine Power → High Grade

Skills: "Strange Source of Life," "Illusory Thorn Eye," "Harmful Plant Poison Blood," "Root Node Residence"

Entry Characteristics: [Soul Strengthening Level 2] [Iron Body Level 1] [Brute Strength Level 3] [Self-Healing Level 3] [Pupil Technique Level 3] [Toxicity Level 3] [Nourishment Level 3]

Strongman Fragment: None

This was an extremely rare sprite with bloodline divine power, completely breaking Li Hai's original mindset that only humans could possess divine powers.

At the same time, the reason for the rapid decline of Li Hai's life force and vital essence was precisely due to that vine monster's bloodline divine power—"Illusory Thorn Eye."

This divine power could, from a great distance, extremely quickly plunder the enemy's vital essence and life force from thin air and turn it into its own use, while the enemy whose life force was plundered would rapidly weaken, lose combat power, and even eventually decline and die.

Li Hai only learned about these things after learning all of the vine monster's skills.

And his method of resolving the current predicament was also very simple: opening the Guiyou Cave Heaven portal at his chest, directly opening the door to release water, letting streams of water soak his body, and then circulating the "Northern Dipper Reverse Fate Mysterious Art."

Under the strange power of this wondrous art, all of the life force he had lost out of thin air was immediately replenished.

The feeling of fatigue that was rapidly expanding, wanting to occupy his body and mind, also vanished instantly.

But at this moment, from the crisscrossing cracks and ravines around Li Hai, hundreds of strange creatures with frog faces, turtle bodies, and human limbs suddenly jumped out.

As soon as these monsters, which seemed to be hybrids of frogs, turtles, and humans, appeared, they all raised their heads and opened their mouths, violently spewing out large amounts of thick black mist.

And as soon as these black mists spewed out of the monsters' mouths, they rapidly spread and swept in all directions, like black ink dripping into a large basin of clear water.

Naturally, Li Hai was also surrounded and covered by it.

However, in the instant before being enveloped by this large expanse of black mist, he also saw the personal interface of these monsters—

Character Name: Unknown

Level Rank: Demon Beast → Intermediate Level

Skills: "Demon Form Beast Appearance," "Concealing Divine Mist," "Poisonous Sticky Demon Body"

Entry Characteristics: [Soul Strengthening Level 1] [Brute Strength Level 1] [Self-Healing Level 2] [Toxicity Level 2]

Strongman Fragment: None

"It's actually a group of demon beasts."

Feeling his spiritual sense being severely obscured by the black mist, Li Hai couldn't help but sneer:

"So that's how it is, so these black mists can actually obscure people's senses, heh, but… raising sprites and raising demon beasts, Lang Laogui ah, you're really busy."

"Yes, I am indeed quite busy."

A faint voice came from the black mist, "So… since you've disturbed my busy life, can you just die right now?"

This was none other than Lang Yunsheng's voice.

And as soon as his voice fell, a full four Knife Spirits, their entire bodies shimmering with silver light, suddenly rushed out from the black mist, each wielding dual blades and carrying layers upon layers of cold blade waves, all slashing towards Li Hai at once.

But facing such a dangerous siege, Li Hai looked up and laughed loudly:

"Good, good, good, four fragments, that's really great!"

Amidst the loud laughter, he instantly swung his double whips wildly, frantically waving out hundreds of thousands of red whip shadows, and wrapped up or pulled out from the ends of those whip shadows hundreds of thousands of vacuum air blades, layering and stacking, and轰隆砸 towards the hundred zhang area around himself and the four Knife Spirits.

Instantly, this vast area was subjected to intense bombardment like a cluster of flying missiles.

Boom boom boom boom boom! ! !

And in this continuous bombardment, countless silver blade lights and blood-red whip shadows constantly flashed, constantly colliding and slashing at each other, constantly destroying various houses, and constantly tearing apart all kinds of living things.

So many hidden bandits, frog-faced, turtle-shelled demon beasts, and those strange vines that emerged from the ground were all blasted and chopped into piles of bloody ashes by the aftermath of the battle between Li Hai and the four Knife Spirits.

As time passed, the overlapping blade lights that originally flew and swayed densely became less and less, and eventually all disappeared.

Obviously, the four Knife Spirits had been killed one by one by Li Hai in the vast black mist.

"Impressive, truly impressive."

Lang Yunsheng's voice rang out again, "I didn't expect you to reach the realm of repelling thousands of troops at such a young age. This is unprecedented within the Great Jing."

As the voice ended, what slowly floated out of the black mist… was not Lang Yunsheng's familiar face.

But a child wearing a black robe and a pale face, looking only about ten years old.

"You're not Lang Yunsheng."

Li Hai was not in a hurry to attack. He looked at the boy who was slowly flying closer to him, but whose personal interface information he could not see at all, and said indifferently, "Who exactly are you?"

"I am Lang Yunsheng."

The child grinned, "It's just that this body… is not my true body."

"I, seem to understand."

Smelling the strong salty stench emanating from the other party's body, Li Hai frowned and said coldly, "This clone of yours was made using the boys sacrificed from the Yu Family Village of Li Lake, right?"

"Oh, you guessed right."

Lang Yunsheng (clone) clapped his small hands to congratulate him, and then said slowly in an old voice that did not match his body age, "Pickled boys are indeed a main ingredient for making puppet golems, and also a refining material for many arcane techniques."